(CN) — An Idaho law restricting books deemed “harmful” to minors buckled under Ninth Circuit review, with the appeals court on Thursday instructing a lower court to reconsider blocking at least a portion of the law.
“At the very least, the ’threat of invoking legal sanctions’ against institutions like plaintiffs’ creates a ‘system of informal censorship,’ at most, the statute encourages formal censorship through the legal process,” U.S. Circuit Judge Milan Smith wrote on behalf of a three-judge panel. “The First Amendment does not tolerate either outcome.”
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